A month ago I decided to change my Nokia N70 with a smarter phone, so I purchased an E-Ten Glofiish X800. I read a lot of online reviews and I decided that the generous processor and display resolution was enough to make me proud of my new phone. Besides that the large community from ETEN Users should keep me away from any future problem.

But soon after this I started being dissapointed by the lack of memory. I like having the newest applications, and I test my gadgets to the max, and the 64 Mb of RAM made this very difficult. So after a little tweaking with some custom ROMs, I decided that I need more RAM. So I oriented towards other smart phones. In my search I found the newly appeared HTC Diamond. It had a 528 processor, 192 Mb Ram, a VGA display, and it was optimized for touch. I bought it and even by this moment, more than two weeks later, I still am excited with it. Every day I find some new tricks and it seems that the HTC team did a very good job with this device. All the applications I needed, like iGO 2008, work very smooth, the telephone application is very responsive, and even the new TouchFlo plugin works quite well despite what everybody says.

So for the moment this smartphone meets my requirements and I recommend it to everyone.

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I recently switched my shared webhost from Hostgator and previously to that from Godaddy to Steadfast Networks. This switch was made in my search for some fast and reliable servers. I read many good reviews about them and I wanted also to test the Litespeed based webservers. I was very pleasantly impressed with this and Apache lost my vote for the moment. One of the main things that struck me was a plugin used for this blog, called Google XML Sitemaps. When you rebuild your sitemap manually it show you in one of the status lines how much time it took and how much memory it used. On Godaddy I had to raise the memory limit to 16, because it used around 10-12 MB of memory, and took about 6 seconds to complete. On Hostgator about the same, but when I copied my blog to Steadfast, besides the obvious increase in browsing speed, I saw:

“The building process took about 1.22 seconds to complete and used 1.5 MB of memory.”

That’s why from now on, after bouncing from webhost to webhost, I will remain with Steadfast until I will be disappointed with something (hopely not too soon).

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Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it’s easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it’s an essential thing to turn on.

To get to the configuration page, you can either right-click the Computer icon and choose properties, or you can type in system into the start menu search box, and then System.

Now you’ll want to click the Remote Settings link on the left hand side.

Check “Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer” and “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop” (this means that you can access your remote computer using Windows XP also).

Note: This will not work for Home editions of Windows Vista. Read the rest of this entry »

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